Question to Rossman
Oct 25, 2011 11:19:47 GMT -5
Post by cfvickers on Oct 25, 2011 11:19:47 GMT -5
I posted this on Reloaders Nest but thought Rossman may be able to give me some info on the bullet in question. It is a 129 grain round nose, I was thinking hornady because of the weight but may be winchester.
I came up with 17 of these and would like to get some more before I shoot any, but just looking at the shape of the bullet and oddly long ogive I was thinking that I should be able to achieve some completely unreasonable velocities with my 6.5x55. It only has .3" of bearing surface vs .5+ for all of the 7 other 120-130 grain class 6.5 bullets I have here. Just need to find some more so I can play with it a little. Looks like a mean 100-300 yards deer bullet. The steyr likes flat based bullets best, and this one looks like it may be an ideal all purpose bullet. On the other hand I have a lot of 129 old style interlock SP bullets on hand and I can shoot groups under an inch with any powder or charge I have put behind it. 4 powders 6 charges so far and it is sub inch with all.
This may not be a Hornady bullet. I have read that Winchester came out with a similar profiled bullet when it introduced the .264 Win Mag with a short bearing surface in order to achieve their advertised velocities. These were at one time pulled it looks like so it could be those, in which case I would assume they will be hard to come by.
Opinions/enlightenment??
I came up with 17 of these and would like to get some more before I shoot any, but just looking at the shape of the bullet and oddly long ogive I was thinking that I should be able to achieve some completely unreasonable velocities with my 6.5x55. It only has .3" of bearing surface vs .5+ for all of the 7 other 120-130 grain class 6.5 bullets I have here. Just need to find some more so I can play with it a little. Looks like a mean 100-300 yards deer bullet. The steyr likes flat based bullets best, and this one looks like it may be an ideal all purpose bullet. On the other hand I have a lot of 129 old style interlock SP bullets on hand and I can shoot groups under an inch with any powder or charge I have put behind it. 4 powders 6 charges so far and it is sub inch with all.
This may not be a Hornady bullet. I have read that Winchester came out with a similar profiled bullet when it introduced the .264 Win Mag with a short bearing surface in order to achieve their advertised velocities. These were at one time pulled it looks like so it could be those, in which case I would assume they will be hard to come by.
Opinions/enlightenment??
